Character Design Final

My final for character design -- meet Seymour!

Life drawing -- CTNX/airports

A little bit of the sketching that I managed to get away with in between running back and forth between workshops and portfolio reviews at CTNX! I had a blast and can't wait to go back next year!

Co-Star Character Design

For [one of] this week's HW assignments, I had to design a sidekick or co-star for my previous character corresponding to a time period of my choice. (I chose my Old West time period variation -- I love westerns). The result was Wranglin' Raccoon!

Wranglin' Raccoon is the lead villain in the Old West alternate universe of Drama Llama. He's the mastermind and head of a notorious band of outlaws of which Drama Llama is a member. Unfortunately for Wranglin' Raccoon, he's miles ahead in the brains department compared to the rest of his merry band of wrong-doers and thus he ends up spending more time trying to extricate himself from their botched robbery attempts than actually planning nefarious deeds.

Some of the preliminary research/sketches:

Then I did color variations! This was a really useful exercise -- I'm trying to improve my color design, and doing this exercise made me think outside of the box a bit from what I would normally consider.

Character Design through time -- Heffner the Drama Llama

A fun little character design exercise involving my drama llama character, Heffner. I tried to keep a pretty consistent color palette (mostly red with some blue and yellow) and tried to keep in mind his position as a "background" character. In order:

1. Original 2. Circus Clown circa 1910 3. Cave Llama 4. Wild West Outlaw Member 5. 1960's Hippie (circa Woodstock) 6. Ancient Greek Philosopher (he does like to talk a lot) 7. 70's Punk Rocker 8. Star Trek Red Shirt 9. Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Builder 10. 50's Housewife

Life Drawing HW -- Ben Lane talk

Ben Lane, a CCAD alum and story artist at Disney, took some time last week to talk to us via Skype! I also did a little sketching in between note taking.

Lifedrawing HW -- CCAD

Still sketching people in class. I pay attention, I swear.

Line Quality Exercise

Experimenting with line quality featuring my thesis character, James!

Halloween Sketching!

Went to a Halloween party thing at one of my favorite bars and did some sketching. A mix of people actually in costume and 'monster-fying' other bar patrons not in costume.

Lifedrawing HW -- CCAD campus

More classmate sketching!

Character Redesign

We had to redesign an existing character design -- I chose Eliza Thornberry because I've always found her to be a little...creepy looking. Too much "Ah Real Monsters" in there for me.

Lifedrawing HW -- dogs!

I was at a friend's house and she had a cute little puppy, so I tried to sketch him really quickly.

Lifedrawing HW -- Tyler Bolyard Talk

Tyler Bolyard came to talk about working as a modeler and texture artist! Lots of good stuff, but I focus best when I'm doodling.

Hands

Lots of hands recently -- from three fingered "cartoony" to four fingered "realistic"